Al-Kut Prayer Times

Prayer Times in Al-Kut, Iraq

Al-Kutprayer times are calculated based on the city's precise geographic coordinates (32.5128°N, 45.8182°E) using the Muslim World League calculation method — the standard followed by most mosques in Iraq. Times shown are for today's date and update automatically at midnight.

The five daily prayers — Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha — are calculated from the sun's position relative to Al-Kut's latitude and longitude. As the sun's declination changes throughout the year, prayer times shift by several minutes each day. This is why a Al-Kut prayer time calendar for the full month is shown below — so you can plan ahead without checking daily.

How Al-Kut's prayer times are worked out

Al-Kut sits 1,368 km (850 miles) from the Kaaba in Mecca, so the Qibla from here is 207° from true north — you face southwest to pray. Fajr and Isha depend on how far the sun drops below the horizon, and Iraq follows the Muslim World League method set by the Muslim World League: Fajr begins when the sun is 18° below the horizon, and Isha when it reaches 17°. A city that used ISNA's 15° instead would get a noticeably different Fajr — which is why the method, not just the coordinates, decides the answer.

Day length is what really moves the timetable in Al-Kut. Measured with the Muslim World League method, the longest daily fast here — from Fajr to Maghrib — runs about 15h 59m around June, while the shortest is roughly 11h 29m in December: a swing of 4h 30m across the year. That spread is set by Al-Kut's latitude (32.51°N); cities nearer the equator barely vary, while far-northern ones swing by many hours.

Al-Kut sits close to the meridian of its Asia/Baghdad time zone, so the sun peaks within 5 minutes of clock noon and Dhuhr lands near midday — today at 12:04 PM. Dhuhr always tracks the sun's peak, not the clock. The nearest cities we also publish times for are An Nu‘mānīyah, Al Ḩayy, Qal‘at Sukkar — close enough that their times differ from Al-Kut's by only a few minutes.